Getting lost. Colors & textures. Words. Music. Soft pillows and hard beds. Yoga. Flea markets, thrift stores and county fairs. Books that make the brain go 'zzzzppppaaa.' Fireworks. TSUGARU-BEN and summer in Aomori. Feline psychology. Eyebrows (especially those on old Japanese men). Old abandoned buildings. Dancing till I'm falling over. The idea that the more you try to boil things down into truisms, the more they explode in your face. Abstract photgraphy. ONSEN. Random circumstance. 1920s pop culture.
Anyone compatible with whatever it was Jerome in all his infinite wisdom typed above. People good with breaking code.
Velvet Underground, Massive Attack, Tribe Called Quest, Prince, Low, Stevie Wonder, Flaming Lips, Common, Tom Waits, Air, LTJ Bukem, Leonard Cohen, The Pharcyde, Slowdive, Metro Area, Kevin Yost, Beatles, Lonnie Liston Smith, Calm, Steve Reich, Herbie Hancock, Slum Village, DJ Cam, Jazzanova, Tosca, Brand New Heavies, Carole King, Radiohead, Ohmega Watts, Burt Bacharach, the Roots, Chari Chari, Fleetwood Mac, Brian Eno, Jay-Z, Yo La Tengo, MBV, Platinum Pied Pipers, Lou Rawls, James Brown.... and last but not least, jazz, nu jazz, dub, 70s soul, acid jazz, and DEEP SOULFUL HOUSE that shakes my ass.
Seven Samurai, Eternal Sunshine, Royal Tennenbaums, 28 Days Later, Wong Kar Wai flix, Secretary, Cool Hand Luke, Eddie Izzard's "Dress to Kill," Miyazaki Hayao anime, Charlie Chaplin anything (but esp Modern Times), Waiting for Guffman, Buffalo 66, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, House of Yes, Dead Man, Style Wars, Chinatown, Valley Girl.
M*A*S*H re-runs, Simpsons, Karakuri TV (Sanma-san!!!), Adult Swim.
Writers: Delillo, Nabokov, Mark Twain, Yosano Akiko, Philip Roth, Murakami Haruki, Baudelaire, Adrienne Rich, Steven Millhauser, Checkov, James Joyce, Barthes, Tanizaki, Soseki. Books: Poisonwood Bible, Master & Margerita, 1984.
Jerome the Cat, Virginia Woolf, all my yoga teachers especially Andrea (FreeSpiritYoga.com!), Noam Chomsky, Curious George.